Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-07-19
LOCAL OPTION.

LOCAL OPTION.
The Yankton County Petition Again
Before the County Commissioners
| and Action Taken Thereon.
To-day at 10 o'clock a. m. was the
time specified by the board of county
commissioners for taking action upon
the W. q. 7. U. local option petition
concering which so much has been
remarked of late and as the
hour for settling the matter
drew nigh there assembled at the court
house q large number of people whose
positions regarding prohibition are de-
cidedly a~ntagonistio. When the matter
was taken up by the commissioners, j. a.
Teller, in behalf OF the committee which
has the petition in charge, asked for q
short extension of time. stating that the
committee was engaged in comparing
the petition with poll list OF the last
general election, and that if this work
Was allowed to be completed, the labors
of the commissioners in comparing the
list would be considerably expedited.
There vas delay on the part Of the com
miesioners n granting this request and
in the meantime L. B. French, county
attorney, who ls furnishing
the legal advice in the case
for the commissioners, stated that he
could find but one case cited IN his law
library which had any bearing on the
question involved, which was the with
drawal of a petition which had already
been fled. This case decided hat the
names on any petition which had been fiji
ed with the county board could be with
drawn and that nc names could be added
to any petition which had been filed,
but that in the discretion OF the board
any petition could be Withdrawn. This
citation was accepted by the commits
%sioners as the proper construction of the
Dakota law and the action upon the
petition was in accordance Herewith.
III. w Robson here addressed himself
to the chairman of the board and asked
that his signature, which was on the old
petition, be stricken off, as it had been
secured by Misrepresentation. The
board would not permit this and MIR.
Robson retired.
j. 81. Teller then requested that the
the persons who filed the petition be
allowed to withdraw it. Commits.
sioner Aaseth, then moved that
the request be granted and
a vote was taken, the result being that
the motion was lost and the request not
granted.
Mr.. Aaseth then moved that the pray
or of the petitioners be not granted
because it lacked sufficient names and
the result of the vote was that the
motion carried and the fate OF the old
petition was sealed. 1t goes on file
among the archives of Yankton to be
viewed as a curiosity centuries hence.
The commissioners after having dis
posed of the old petition granted the
w. @. 7. U. committee until 2 O'Clock
p. m. to-day to file q new petition, and
promptly at 2 o'clock this afternoon, ].
81. Teller presented himself with the
petition and with the statement that q
committee of gentleman had secured 0
petition covering forty sheets
of paper and bearing The
signatures of 725 voters OF Yanktor
county, which petition prayed that the
question of local option be submitted tc
q vote of the people OF Yankton county
at the next general election. The com
missioners placed the petition or file
The county clerk took it anG
after afixing the day and houl
OF the filing, the commissioners begar
the work of comparing the petition
with the poll books. The
sheets were counted and We're found tc
, number forty. The signature were ther
counted, and 1877 names were found
After this tine work of recopying alpha
r betically the petition was taken up, ane
the entire afternoon was consumed Ii
this work. The. petition which wa
declared this forenoon not sufficient t.
Justify calling an election was thu
petition filed three weeks ago
o portion of which myateriously dis
appeared. The petition which thu
board is at work upon now is or e%ntirel.
, new petition, the names upon which
have been obtained within n week
The comparing of names will probabl.
be finished tomorrow and the publ
will know then whether or not there
8 to be an election upon the question o
prohibition in Yankton county.
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